More
Details on the May 2, 2002 Provincial
By-Elections In Nipissing and Peel-Dufferin-Grey-Wellington

SUMMARY

To help you and
your organization help raise the ODA issue in the May 2 Peel and North
Bay area by-elections, here is some information on our new ODA by-election
pamphlet, how you can get involved even if you live in Toronto, the
names of the candidates, the schedule for all-candidates' debates, and
questions you might wish to ask the candidates. we will send out more
information when we receive it. Please send this information to your
organization's offices in those ridings and get them involved.

If you live in or
near one of the two ridings where a by-election will be held,
please print up and hand out copies of this by-election pamphlet to
members of
the public. Take it to all-candidates' debates and give it out there.
You can
also email it to people you know in those ridings and to the media.

If you are part
of a province-wide community organization, please contact your
local offices in or near those ridings and get them to print up and
distribute
this leaflet.

If instead of visiting
our website, you would rather have us email you the text
of the pamphlet, send your request to: oda@odacommittee.net

HOW PEOPLE IN
TORONTO CAN HELP

If you live in the
greater Toronto area, and would like to help us raise the ODA issue
in the Peel area by-election campaign, where incoming premier Ernie
Eves is running, we need your help. To offer your assistance, please
contact:

We are especially
eager to organize folks to carpool together to go to
all-candidates debates in the Peel riding.

WHO IS RUNNING?

Here are the names
of the candidates in each riding for the three major
parties, and the contact information we have. We do not have all contact
information for each candidate as of now. Feel free to check our website
at
www.odacommittee.net, which we will try to update if more information
comes in:

3. North Bay Network
for Social Action
all-candidates meeting on social justice issues
Thursday April 25 at 7 pm
Anishnabe Friendship Centre
980 Cassells St. upstairs

QUESTIONS FOR
BY-ELECTION

Whether you encounter
a candidate at an all-candidates' meeting or other public
event or location, you should raise the ODA issue. Here are questions
you might
consider asking:

Back in 1995, Mike
Harris promised 1.5 million Ontarians with disabilities that
a Conservative Government would pass a new law in his first term, the
Ontarians
with Disabilities Act, to achieve a barrier-free Ontario. He did not
pass it in
his first term. He finally pass a limited disability law last fall,
the very
last law when he was Premier. Many found it quite disappointing. His
Government has left most of the law unproclaimed, so it is not in force.
People with disabilities keep suffering from old barriers and new ones
are
still being created.

(1) Do you think
the Conservative Government should immediately proclaim in
force all the provisions of the Ontarians with Disabilities Act 2001,
and that
Premier Eves should meet with the Ontarians with Disabilities Act Committee,
a
province-wide disability coalition whom Mike Harris refused to meet,
though
he was asked to meet 27 different times?

(2) Last fall, when
the Ontarians with bilities Act bill was before the
Legislature, the Conservative Government rejected almost every amendment
that
the disability community proposed to strengthen this legislation. The
NDP and
Liberals each supported all the amendments that the disability community
supported.If you are elected, will you support amendments to the bill
now to
strengthen it?